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MoocsMore massive and multilingual tooTwo leading US massive open online course providers have each almost doubled the number of universities offering courses on their respective platforms. Coursera...
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Campus Review: Groups baulk at capping international students
By Susan Woodward for Campus Review
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Letters
Learn from Met record or get stuck on repeatHow well acquainted is Michael Shattock with London Metropolitan University? (“‘The best board I ever sat on’”, 30?May.) In drawing parallels between HBOS...
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The old heave-ho
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald Kauvar and E. Grady Bogue on the many reasons higher education leaders end up walking the plank
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Decline and fall of American presidencies
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald Kauvar and E. Grady Bogue on forced departures and how to avoid them
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Sandel on values when everything’s for sale
Matthew Reisz meets Harvard superstar Michael Sandel to discuss the preservation of the public good
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Are you looking for trouble?
“A wonderful opportunity.” That was how Louise Bimpson, corporate director of our ever-expanding Human Resources team, reacted to news that The Hub Events training organisation (motto “Fresh Ideas,...
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Alan Harrison, 1944-2012
A successful industrialist who went on to become an academic expert on operations management has died.Alan Harrison was born in Oxfordshire on 25 November 1944 and educated at Abingdon School before...
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Economy needs '10,000 extra science graduates'
The UK needs to educate at least an extra 10,000 science graduates a year just to maintain its current industrial position, a major new report has concluded.
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'Eight great technologies' for investment revealed
Universities and science minister David Willetts has laid out how the government plan to spend the ?600 million allocated to research in December’s Autumn Statement
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Bleakonomics by Rob Larson
Stewart Lansley on a sobering tale of plutonomy and the ‘failed science’ of economics
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Stubbornly indifferent
The government’s immigration policy harms student traffic from abroad and the economy, claims Shabana Mahmood
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Money and old tropes
The academy is paying too much, not too little, heed to calls for adaptability to the market, says Hannah Forsyth
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Hungry Treasury eyes universities 'awash with cash'
Further austerity measures could wreak havoc with BIS’ stretched finances
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Rich pickings?
New austerity measures could wreak havoc on BIS’ stretched finances. By John Morgan and Jack Grove